Welcome back for Zoeglossia’s Poem of the Week series curated this month by Kay Ulanday Barrett.
April 26, 2021
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prayer as wall of fire
by Khairani Barokka
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prayer as wall of fire
By Khairani Barokka
Photo description: Black and white photo of an Indonesian woman with short hair, earrings, and a patterned dress, lying down on her front, pen in hand, ready to write. Photo credit: Derrick Kakembo.
Bio: Khairani Barokka is a Minang-Javanese writer and artist from Jakarta, whose work has been presented in more than 15 countries. Her work centers disability justice as anti-colonial praxis. She is currently Research Fellow at UAL's Decolonising Arts Institute, and Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing (UK). Among her honours, she has been Modern Poetry in Translation's Inaugural Poet-in-Residence, a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, an Artforum Must-See, and an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow. Her books are Rope (Nine Arches) and Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis), and she is co-editor of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches). Her next book is poetry collection Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches, March 2021).